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Exercising Your Character: Speakers provide motivation along with the fun
A college coach, a 13-year-old triathlete, a former NBA star and an NFL kicker shared inspirational messages with 7,000 students at the sixth annual Exercising Your Character event, held today at Hy-Vee Hall in Des Moines. Exercising Your Character is a celebration of physical fitness, good character and sportsmanship. Fourth- and fifth-grade classes from schools [...]
Hy-Vee helps raise money for diabetes cure
Hundreds of Hy-Vee employees flooded the skywalks of downtown Des Moines on Saturday for the annual Walk to Cure Diabetes, a benefit for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. The 2.5-mile indoor trek is central Iowa’s largest benefit walk, with more than 8,000 participants of all ages turning out to raise money to find a cure [...]
Miles of smiles for JDRF
Fort Dodge Hy-Vee put on a great event to raise funds for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. I was fortunate enough to take part in the first (and based on rave reviews, it won’t be the last) Hy-Vee Half for JDRF — a half marathon and accompanying 5k that drew a few hundred participants on [...]
Love comes in all shapes and sizes at Hy-Vee
At the Hy-Vee in Brookings, SD, love means extending a caring hand to a customer when her world, quite literally, came crashing down. This touching story was one of three nationwide selected by Starbucks to be featured as part of its “Everylove” campaign. Watch it here:
Meet Hy-Vee’s banana expert: Norm Davis
Tucked deep within Hy-Vee’s sprawling perishable distribution facility in Chariton, IA is a room where Norm Davis performs his magic. Here he receives truckloads of freshly harvested bananas that are bright green, rock-hard and inedible (“they taste like chalk and smell like a cucumber”) and shepherds them through a five-day ripening process, adjusting the temperature and administering [...]